Bills Introduced – 1-27-20

Yesterday with the House in session and the Senate sitting on the impeachment process there were 12 bills introduced. Two of those bills may see future activity in this blog:

HR 5679 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to limit to five years the term of the Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes. Rep. Katko, John [R-NY-24]

HR 5680 To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to protect United States critical infrastructure by ensuring that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the Department of Homeland Security has necessary legal tools to notify entities at risk of cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the enterprise devices or systems that control critical assets of the United States, and for other purposes. Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2] 

HR 5679 would limit the CISA director to a five-year term. I probably will not do an analysis blog post on this bill (it looks pretty straight forward from the committee print), but I will watch it as it progresses thru the process for addons. The House Homeland Security Committee will take up this bill in a markup hearing tomorrow.

HR 5680 is the bill I briefly (and erroneously) described at HR 5667 in last evenings post. A copy of the bill has been published by the GPO so I will probably review the details later this morning.